Opening Remarks and Session 1: Democratic Participation and Processes

​Join us for opening remarks from MIT leadership, followed by a conversation with SHASS scholars investigating critical questions surrounding the mechanisms of democratic participation—from voting systems and political persuasion to social movements and civic engagement.

​Opening Remarks

• ​Welcome video: Sally Kornbluth, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• ​Anantha Chandrakasan, Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• ​Melissa Nobles, Chancellor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• ​Agustín Rayo PhD ’01, Kenan Sahin Dean, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

• ​David Kaiser, Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science,
  Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and Professor of Physics

​Panelists:

• ​Bailey Flanigan, Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Theodore T. Miller (1922) Career Development Assistant Professor of Computer Science

• ​Rebekah Larsen, Professor, Comparative Media Studies/Writing

• ​Tanalis Padilla, Professor of History; Leverett Howell Cutten ’07 and William King Cutten ’39 Professorship

• ​Charles Stewart III, Kenan Sahin (1963) Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Founding Director, MIT Election Data and Science Lab

​Moderator

• ​Brian Hedden PhD ’12, Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy holding an MIT Schwarzman College of Computing shared position with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)